jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
"Given Russia's current financial position (read: bad) and the US's position (read: good) it makes a lot of sense for Cuba to pick the US right now over Russia.

The money forgiveness is just the "cherry on top.""

You can roughly translate as "Russia gave Cuba over to the US for free, plus the extra blaming". No wonder one will be in bad financial position when they have to forgive debts owned to them over and over.
Keep an eye on this new python implementation:

https://github.com/dropbox/pyston
Following your nonsensical logic there would be no difference in covid cases between states or nations. Obviously this is not true.

It is absolutely the government’s job to enact policy to slow the spread of deadly disease. It is also the job of governing leaders to encourage and educate citizens on how and why they should comply with these policies. This is where the USA is failing miserably.

We could discuss the tradeoffs and the details, that’s fair, but it’s totally irresponsible of you to say that this massive spike in cases was ‘inevitable’.
4000 deaths in Iowa.

127 per 100,000 people in Iowa
http://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/?chart=states&...

Compared to

70 per 100,000 people in California.
http://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/?chart=states-...
If they continue with the objections it might further cement some moderates to become permanent Democratic voters. Today's events will no doubt shape the political landscape for years to come, and there is no turning it back.

These voters will continually fear what it means to elect a Republican, because should they lose in the subsequent election, there is now an established history of violence and death -- a woman has died in the Capitol today.
It's been quietly resupplied with everything except staff, from what I can tell from a civil servant friend.

Which makes it of limited use.
You’re totally allowed to have that opinion and other people are totally allowed to think it’s idiotic, unless I’m missing you’re point?
And if you count the number of classic books written in an Algol-based language its basically every other book except the small set listed by the previous poster.
Thanks!

Obviously, some questions you're going to need to work through the code, so we can always move the conversation to text.

So far lots of the calls have been about documentation and best practices which are pretty easy to talk through.
Hmmm.... Since Amazon is the primary e-book vendor, perhaps, if authors could access summary sales information per title, the royalty issue could be resolved.
I agree. One of the more useful things I used comment scores for was to be sure to avoid missing useful comments that were down low on the page. Having a mechanism for setting apart well-regarded comments would be useful.

It would likely have to be normalized based on the score of the submission or the total number of comments on that submission, though, which might be more complexity than pg wants.
But if you tell students "sometimes light looks like it's a wave and sometimes it looks like it's a particle" then they can parrot that back to you and sound smart. This is despite them not understanding the meaning of the words "looks like", "wave", "particle", or "sometimes".
>I'm not sure what the author of the rant thinks the people who invented Unix were doing all those years.

I'm not sure what you think they're doing, but they were not running Unix in production.

I've read an interview with Ken Thompson taken around the nineties, and he mentioned they were using Windows desktop machines. And true to the words he had Windows on the monitor on his desk.

And of course they were doing academic and researchy stuff. Not running Unix in production.
Lesson 1: Don't publish your passwords.

Lesson 2: When using AWS then use Billing Alarms[1].

It takes about 1 minute to setup and enables e-mail or SMS notifications at dollar-thresholds of your choice.

[1] http://docs.aws.amazon.com/awsaccountbilling/latest/aboutv2/...
Pike said of the asm syntax a while back "It's a mess for which there is no good excuse aside from history": https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-nuts/6-qcvLnW... .

Also, later in that thread:

> It's not a proper assembler, only a way to generate the startup object files necessary to get the binary running, and is neither clean, complete, nor documented.

> None of that is excusable, only true.

Plan 9 C compilers, incidentally, are going away too as soon as they port the rest of Go into Go.

It's clear to me there was path-dependency--some folks who mostly worked on Plan 9 started a little skunkworks-y language project, and rather than deciding to learn the LLVM world and slot themselves into that à la Rust or similar, they brought along the toolchain they'd been working with since forever.

To me, that's more like any other case of sticking with legacy code than NIH--it's "I'm using these tools I've worked a lot with because that's a lot cheaper for me than switching" not "I'm going to build tools from scratch right now because [I think I can do better|it's fun|rabid badgers made me do it]."

I wouldn't mind using LLVM or some such to handle the lower levels at all; I hear it's great elsewhere and I specifically hear Go's ARM codegen is pretty wonky. But it's also expensive to do and a lot less important to most of us than the things the team's working on, like lowering GC pause times.

Finally, in case anyone read it as serious, "Instructions, registers, and assembler directives are always in UPPER CASE to remind you that assembly programming is a fraught endeavor" is a joke. This is the same language that has 'notwithstanding' as an (ignored) keyword; not everything deadpan is serious.
Honest questions: What kind of benchmark do others uses for a 'reasonable' response time? Of course it fully depends on the use-case (rendering a video can be hard in 500ms), but for user facing stuff?
In my previous startup we tried to stay within 500ms.
Not saying this isn't a great improvement, but to me 3s still sounds quite long? (not saying it's easy to do quicker!)
I'd guess they're aiming for a future intersection where mobile computing power meets ubiquity.
It also shows how few people had access to the Internet in 1995. Over the course of 4.5 months, the author received 13,500 personal letters via snail mail. In the same period his website received only 50,000 pageviews, but he thought of that as a very high number.

Fast forward to 2010: any moderately successful blog will receive 50,000 pageviews a day, but its authors will probably never receive 13,500 personal letters via snail mail.
I'd like to live in a world where companies are free to offer the products they choose to offer under the terms they choose to offer them under.

Companies have always been able to offer products under arbitrarily complicated terms of their choosing. But any supposed benefits from having the government enforce compliance with these terms should be weighed against the consequent loss of individual privacy & liberty.
Although PhD is a lot of work, its non-fixed schedule allows for some kind of freedom that you can use for networking. For example, PhD is a great time to be involved with open source projects where you can significantly contribute to, which can bring a lot of valuable opportunities if you're good at it and the project fills a marketable niche.

I know that my PhD completely changes the nature of jobs I can hope to get - not really because of what I learned directly at my PhD, but for everything else.
The funny thing is, as a musician, I came at this the wrong way, with an idea in my head that I tried to express using the pieces. I ended up frustrated at the sequencing limitations.

Then I just tried playing around, making a little neighborhood while the cars cruised about, ringing the scenery. Since the notes follow a pre-defined scale, you can't really "mess up" the sound. Now I don't want to quit!
I also remember watching this news in CNN. Then getting my first Internet connection and read rest of the story to end. At that time this was a big news in small World Wide Web.
How is this different from using CoreAudio or OpenAL for 3D audio?
That's an easy one: yes :)
If the prices are up due to competition, it might be expensive, but it's not overpriced.
Gmail proxies the images when you open the email.

What the parent is suggesting is for Gmail to download the images as soon as the server receives the email, thereby rendering any tracking data meaningless.
> The Fed does not hold equity (stock)

Thanks for pointing out this error. I thought the Fed had been buying stock as part of their recent expansion, but checking their balance sheet https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h41/current/h41.htm I see that you're right.

> Lots of money is created by regular banks lending out deposits

I was only counting Federal Reserve accounts and printed money as dollars. Dollar-denominated accounts at regular banks have value because of the assets held by those banks.
This has been formalized in a triangular graphic. Why not provide this to a project manager, on a corkboard or magnetic board, along with pins/markers to show original plans and current estimates ?
I think the “live podcasting” is a post-hoc rationalisation. In my experience it’s much closer to a conference call than a podcast.

Specifically, lack of script, lack of direction, low audio quality, “am I muted?”, and people talking over each other.

Twitter in the early days was known for celebrities turning up and replying to or even following non-celebrities. Then Quora was known for this. Both outgrew this quickly - celebrities may still do these things, but proportionally less so and it’s not the draw to the platform.

I think Clubhouse needs to figure out what it’s draw is after this phase because right now it’s just a conference call with a celebrity.
Which part of the world has "natural immunity" to Covid? The fraction of people who had Covid compared to those who had not is almost negligible almost everywhere?

Even if the case numbers (~140M worldwide) were underreported by 80% (i.e. that there are five times as many cases as we actually know about), it still would just amount to only roughly 10% of all people worldwide.
Thank you for sharing this! More valuable insight into the realities of indie mobile development.
If you think 45 years old is a greybeard then I think I've lost you, and Linus made most of his impact before he even had a beard.

Facebook was anything but a Myspace rip-off, Myspace was to Facebook as Geocities was to Digital Ocean or Altavista to Google.
> If you're concerned about your privacy just turn wifi off.

No, you shouldn't have to turn off a very commonly used service so that people can do better business by tracking it in an intrusive manner. Privacy should be the default option in such programs.

If the city used a ton of cameras + facial recognition to track you and your car everywhere and then sold that data to companies so they could optimize for whatever meaningless metric, would you still be as casual about this, and go "Oh, you should just cover your face and walk everywhere if you expect privacy."?
Are you posting your thesis online? I'd like to have a look.
> because people like to signal

Yes; signaling seems to be an important part of value for the producers, not only in fashion. It's the same in expensive cars, expensive electronics (think Apple), etc. Not surprisingly, those are the companies that are the loudest about chinese knockoffs.

If I were to 3D scan and then replicate the bag with subatomic precision using Star Trek replicator, I don't think anyone would feel that I'm stealing something, but people would still point out that this is not a real Hermes bag (so I got something of lesser worth). And if I took the original and left the copy in the shop, it could be considered theft even though you couldn't tell a difference with a scanning electron microscope.

It's funny how society and moral intuitions work; a very interesting topic.
For those interested in a technically detailed fictional account of a rescue mission to Mars, read The Martian by Andy Weir. It raises some of the same feelings as this article.
I'd imagine that's pretty unlikely. They don't move it around much, just raise its orbit occasionally, and it gets regular visits from cargo ships so they don't need to keep large supplies of fuel onboard. Its much larger mass would be an issue, too.
unacceptable on which end? The coffee shop collecting the info or your phone exposing it?
Apparently Nordstrom did an experiment with this for a while - http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/15/business/attention-shopper... - even going as far as monitoring passing traffic so you could monitor the percentage of people passing who actually come into the store. This could be pretty fascinating in the context of running certain types of window displays, sales/offers, etc, and lead to ecommerce-style split testing and the like. It says they stopped the experiment partly due to people whining though, but I imagine it'll just go 'under the radar' in future since it could be too valuable not to try.
Sorry for the slow response. Came down with a cold and haven't felt very lucid.

I'm just talking about positive externalities: anywhere the social value created by producing + consuming local news exceeds the social cost of producing + consuming it.

It seems like you're focused more on the consumption side (i.e., pearl-clutching over whether people spend their time/money consuming local news, or whatever they spend time/money on instead). I wouldn't say that the consumption side is irrelevant, but I'm more concerned about the production side. For example:

The social value of reporting out a local corruption scandal isn't necessarily linked to the market value of the associated column-inches. The lion's share of the social value comes from rooting out the corruption.

Try flipping it around. If a news outlet had enough metrics on past scandal coverage to know that breaking it won't increase profits, should they make a shrewd decision to accept payment from one or more participants in the scandal to bury the story, save the time on reporting it out, and run a wire piece in its place?
The high cost of housing is caused by "rent seeking" -- a microeconomics term in which politics rather than wealth creation is used to increase someone's wealth. Harvard economist Edward Glaeser and many others have written about this. Zoning is used to regulate housing density and overuse of historic landmark preservation both artificially increase the price of land. Thus, landowners with billions of dollars in property are made all the more wealthy.
Personally I believe that the era of Facebook style social media networks have come and gone. It’s on the road to becoming a niche product, like family newsletters, not completely dead, but also not completely alive.

I can respect the work and the idea, but not many are going to sign up, the first mover types have been burned so badly by Facebook that they’re going to pass.
Well, we are at the point where farmers have to add nutrients to soil.
I agree with you... mostly. I do find it frustrating that almost all the effort is expected to be on the technical personnel. I don't care if you are a "business" person (aren't we all?), I don't care if your job is sales, or product management, if you deal with software all day, you should put the effort in to understand it.

There is an expectation that the technical person has to explain everything at 100 different levels of detail, depending on the composition of the people in the room. But there often isn't the reciprocal expectation that the non-technical people put some effort in. If you work with a technical subject and you can't understand it, past a certain point, that is on you.

It's your job to understand this stuff, do your fucking job.
i agree that VR is still far away from taking off.

i expect the solution is going to be something like CAVE, which we already had working in the 90s. by today it is feasible to have a 4-sided projector mounted in a room so that you can project a 3d environment to multiple walls and give you the feeling of being inside. 3D glasses like those used in movies today are light enough to help with the 3D effects too.

but VRML wasn't just for VR. we are playing 3D games without VR for quite some time now, and there is no reason we couldn't use VRML or X3D today to create interesting experiences.

in the end it comes down to how easy it is to create and distribute the content.

what we need is another drive into browser support where we can embed a 3D object easily, and then maybe it will catch on.
>Gandhi, MLK, and the U.S. Founding Fathers were all criminals of their times. Sometimes the world needs people to break the law to show how broken the law really is.

Except those individuals fought the laws and the people behind them. They did not simply try to circumvent the unjust laws. It is tougher to take the moral high-ground when you aren't striving for change. These people are not battling some great injustice, they are breaking [perhaps unjust] laws for their own personal gain (either monetarily or recreationally).
In javascript you can rebind functions to any context without explicit self in signature. I admit this (PNI) was deeply confusing at first but I tend to prefer this way now. It feels a simpler and more general abstraction.
Hmm.
I thought this was about the electronic music duo Andy Turner and Ed Handley [1] on Warp Records [2].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plaid_(band)

[2]: https://bleep.com/music/artist/27-plaid

https://m.soundcloud.com/bleep_bot/bleep-warp-records-plaid-...
I've been interested in these types of technologies lateley.

>that many people are extremely pessimistic about climate change. They can’t imagine any solution – often, they become mesmerized by what appears to be an insoluble collective action problem – and fall into fatalistic despair.

More and more, I find this description matches my thoughts on climate change. I'm really beginning to think the problem might require building carbon capture solutions on a huge scale. We might have to engineer our way out, because it doesn't appear we are slowing down emissions fast enough.
Yeah, a lot of banks still use SMS 2FA and even don't let you login/approve payment without SMS verification.
Wow, really? I feel the completely opposite.

I also consider myself a "truck guy". In my entire life, I've owned a single car. I had it for about a year when I got up one morning, drove to the dealership, bought a new Dodge (basically the same as yours, except 1500), and told the girlfriend she could have the car (hers had seen better days).

I would not be caught dead in one of these.

(Disclaimer: I'm a Harley riding country boy from the midwest, probably not Tesla's major demographic anyways!)
Also a truck guy here, and totally concur. I reserved mine within 30 seconds of seeing the site.
> There are no sounds that I can make with my mouth that are dangerous.

Shouting fire in a crowded theatre that could lead to a stampede that puts people in danger. Deliberately misinforming people about the risk of an action they are about to take could be too.
"The Handmaid's Tale" was all over Norwegian book stores when I was there in the summer.
Born same time, love all that shit still. :)
Context:

Copart specializes in online auctions of cars that are too damaged for insurance companies to justify paying the price of repairing them; buyers include scrap yards and companies like LKQ Corp., which dismantles old cars and reconditions their parts to be sold in collision-repair shops. The insurance companies get what’s recovered in the auction, minus fees due to Copart that in some cases will increase proportionally with the value of a vehicle.

“There was a lot of concern that safety technology would reduce accidents and so there’d be less cars for auction -- good for society, bad for Copart,” said Craig Kennison, a senior research analyst at Baird. But that didn’t account for the spread of smartphones, he added. “Cars may be safer, but drivers are more distracted.”

Another article from Bloomberg, with more info - https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-11-08/junk-c...
FYI: SOC 2 Type 1 has no weight for corporate/data privacy/infosec because anyone get it with a dozen .docx templates from the internet. Type II report is substantial because it requires the auditor to observe your actual operations for the previous 3-6 months. If you got Type 1 report in March, does that mean that Type 2 report will be available to prospect customers any day now?
The majority of these features have already existed in the upstream WebKit Inspector for several years, but because they ripped out the original javascript implementation to replace with V8, the Chrome people couldn't use any of it.
Thanks! feel free to keep using it, as is up and running now.
I often find when I am reading Wikipedia or tvtropes.org just processing all the great links takes significant effort. AKA why do I have 15 tabs open.

So my text (would you like to know more) is trying to represent that choice. And my point is the presence of a link or a footnote both represent the option to learn more and when creating content deciding where to place those links is important.

PS: Wikipedia uses both and I find the footnotes are far less distracting.
Thanks to everyone who left a comment, I really appreciate the feedback!
I have to question your reasons for making a stand just now on the re-implementation of standard website features throughout the proliferation of diverse web publishing systems. It's been quite a ride since the first CMSs decades ago but the scenery has been much the same, you must admit.

You can claim that the release of standard CMS features by one company or another is not newsworthy (which is why we have the little arrow over there by the link) but I'd then submit that most developments by technology companies (large and small) are less then entirely novel. If those developments are deemed not-news-worthy, HN will have even less to do with the activities of entrepreneurial operations.
I know a specific industry, and I have a deep understanding of the current technlology as well as better solutions: Petroleum controls and automation. Ripe for the picking.

Unfortunately, like most 'enterprisey' industries, the long sales cycle will eat you alive if you are not well funded.
My first reaction was wtf but after playing with it for a minute I must say it's fun.
Yes, I agree with you. I implemented this some time ago then forgot about it. I will increase the limit to something reasonable.
This almost isn't worth replying to, but if you don't know the history of Daring Fireball, you might be correctly confused.

He used to split his feeds into an occasional commentary and sometimes several-times daily links. He combined them a while back, so now you get mostly links mixed in with very occasional commentary in a single feed. I.e., nothing has really changed.
I'm not trying to be critical. I've been following YC since it started and my impression is that it became popular largely because PG was the first guy willing to give developers rent money and a decent valuation on the basis of basically nothing. In contrast, what you are talking about isn't a seed round in the way that most people conceive of it.

> capital isn't flowing like champagne like a lot of people seem to believe.

Absolutely, and I don't think it really has since 2000 to be honest. There was a minor boom around 2004 for "user-generated content" and "social/video" sites, and then another for mobile apps after the app store launched. But the general trend has been towards low-value "seed" rounds for demonstrating traction, and then lots of financing for late-stage companies that would previously have already IPO'd.

I hope you guys get the funding you need. I'm just not sure that your experience is relevant to a discussion on the availability of seed funding, that's all. What this conversation really highlights is the way no-one here even seems to even have the language to talk about what is reasonable in terms of expectations/traction for mid-stage startups that are more capital intensive.