jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Have you seen these benchmarks? https://github.com/logicchains/LPATHBench/blob/master/writeu...
> We have no problems feeding our gullible users to the Google beast, yet we should be the ones warning others to take their privacy serious?

I've found Piwik to be a great open-source (+ self-hosted) alternative - http://piwik.org/
The visualisation of live upvotes is nice, how did you handle that state-wise in React?

I also have comment counts and whatever data is used to dim downvoted comments on my API wishlist ( my own implementation is http://insin.github.io/react-hn ).

An endpoint for just ask/show/jobs items would also be nice.
It's nice to have goals, but I can't help thinking that the incremental improvement of this over just plugging in a dumb cable by hand is not going to be as large as some of the other things Tesla could be working on.

It also seems like this sort of thing would be making the business less focused as an electric car company.

So if anything, it should be a cable that emerges from the car to plug into an appropriate power socket, not the other way around.
Although having a central repository of code on the web is no longer unique to Perl, there is still some of CPAN's infrastructure that would be nice to have in other communities. For instance, cpantesters[1].

As far as I know, only the Lisp community has something similar to cpantesters in their cl-test-grid project.

On the other hand nowadays a language community could probably set up something similar to cpantesters using travis so hopefully we'll see more of those sort of systems in the future.

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[1] - If you want to play buzzword bingo you can think about cpantesters as a distributed, fault-tolerant, self-organizing, volunteered run, cross-platform continuous integration platform that is free to end-users.
React/Flux of course! Who isn't at this time?
Can you provide some evidence of this episode? Right now I'm reading her PhD thesis at Berkeley on filesystems and several of her first-author papers with McKusick. Her works cites McVoy's and says it's OK.
According to David Ricardo's Law of Rent, a tax on land cannot be passed on to renters, because landlords are locational monopolists who are already charging as much as the market will bear.

"A tax upon ground-rents would not raise the rents of houses. It would fall altogether upon the owner of the ground-rent, who acts always as a monopolist, and exacts the greatest rent which can be got for the use of his ground."

- Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations

"A tax on rent would affect rent only; it would fall wholly on landlords, and could not be shifted to any class of consumers. The landlord could not raise his rent, because he would leave unaltered the difference between the produce obtained from the least productive land in cultivation, and that obtained from land of every quality."

- David Ricardo, On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation
> You can't hire cheap labor if the laborers can always get a better deal by self-incorporating and contracting themselves out to you.

Conversely, laborers can't get a better deal by self-incorporating and contracting themselves out to you if you aren't willing to give them a better terms as contractors than you would as employees. (And even if you are, they still might not be able to get a net better deal, as incorporating isn't without its own costs.)

> If your choice is between contracting your building janitorial services to one large firm who no longer has any employees and splitting the work among 10 owner-employees, only one selection will actually result in clean toilets.

OTOH, if your choice as a laborer is to work as an employee for the firm that has contracts to clean toilets or to be a firm that has no contracts, only one choice will get you a pay check.

Sure, if productivity has reached the state where society can provide a UBI that provides a reasonable living where few people need the work for the style of life they would prefer, you can just opt out. But if productivity reaches that point, the way you get the toilets clean is probably by contracting with the one big firm that owns the janitorial robots and has succeed in best optimizing the design of the hardware and software for them, so that it can undercut any competitor on price.

> That is a huge hit to the existing business-owner class.

UBI funded by a taxation system which doesn't preferentially minimize taxes on capital mitigates the degree to which automation and other capital-favoring productivity changes redistributes the gains of wealth to an increasingly narrow capitalist class; it does so by essentially granting the whole citizenry a share of the gains of capital. But it doesn't seem likely that any level at which is sustainable will actually be a meaningful blow to the existing capitalist class, its just will reduce the degree to which the top of that class rockets ahead in wealth and power of everyone else, including the bottom of that class.
Let me touch on each individual point of your criticism:

1) Doesn't every single shop/business try to convince (I'm not using manipulate because of it's incorrectness and the negative association some people may have, see other comment) you as a potential buyer through the same principles? Is that a bad thing? Why isn't it 'allowed' in your eyes to emphasize your strong points (usps) or factual info about a product? What's the difference between our tool and mentioning these facts on the site it self?

2) We inform people about a product shop with factual information so that they can make a better decision. Example: A customer is worried if this shop is legit. Letting them see a message with the number of positive reviews the shop has got can make that worry go away. Social proof also helps in this process (just like we do in the real world when seeing an empty restaurant versus a crowded restaurant).

3) See (2). Our main goal is trying to convince customers of buying at a shop. Helping the shop with communicating their sales pitch to customers isn't about ignoring the interest of the customer. It's in the interest of the shop owner that he guards the interest of the shopper or else his retention or returning rates are going to be very bad.

Your comparison of germs (etc) with persuasion misses every point...

If I would tell customers that if they feel insecure about something (is this shop legit?, is this a popular product?, how long do I have to get it tomorrow?) our tool would provide them with the answers to that at the right time (using our algorithms and data-analysis), then I'm sure no one would object.

Lastly: people are intelligent creatures. If stock info on a product doesn't have your interest but you see it anyway, you'll ignore it (like we do all day with other inputs/noise). But if you are interested in a product and need it fast, than a scarcity message at the right time will certainly help you.
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It's fascinating that this issue occurred; I'd be shocked if the gestalt of data doesn't have enough information to know every passenger's age.

Pure speculation on my part, but it may be a data-hiding issue - if they realized late in design that the passenger manifest system had to feed into the weight estimator, but the passenger manifest (for privacy reasons, or simple "Don't access more data than you need" coding best-practices reasons) only had access to passenger names, surnames, prefixes, and IDs.

It shouldn't have happened (clearly, that's the point an engineer should be pulling the red lever on schedule and doing the work to get the data that's needed to the service that needs it, including clearing legal hurdles for privacy, if necessary), but I can easily imagine it happening if quality took a back-seat to deadlines.
I took a look at it, and my very first thought was, "Oh, another analytics app."

Maybe it is like you said - I'm just not seeing what is distinguishing it from Tableau or other such "DIY analytics from your data" apps. It gave me the impression that you built your own solution instead of learning what was already available.

If I am wrong, then you don't need broader reach. You need a different message.
I'd actually use Caprover then manage my services using that... it's as close to a self-managed platform as you can get for one-click deploys.
I deleted my account a few months ago and was pleasantly surprised to find that it didn't surface in the breach. It could just be hiding in a different datastore of course, but it's definitely more fucks than I thought they gave.
From the link:

>We wish to thank everyone that participated in these discussions. Testimonies from people who experienced harassment or awkward situations, reports about students (notably women) who ended up not learning / using Coq because of its name, were all very important so that the community could fully recognize the impact of the current name and its slang meaning in English, especially with respect to gender-diversity in the Coq community.
I'm guessing the phallic connotations?
I’m rather surprised they don’t even have internal proposals.
I think you still want an OS that is updated, if only for security reasons.

I'm using a Nokia 2720 Flip (https://phonesstorekenya.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Noki...), a phone from a line of those old-time phones: big physical buttons, 4 directional keys. It runs KaiOS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KaiOS) a recent OS that targets low-end "dumbphones" but still gives them modern functionalities. Most are unneeded in the context of the thread (Facebook, Ok Google) but some might be useful (there's Whatsapp if you really need it, emails)

There's a list of devices that are sold with it in the wiki page. It's primarily targeted at emergent markets but you definitely can buy them. Bonus: because they're simple, they're cheaper
The McGurk illusion:

https://youtu.be/G-lN8vWm3m0
We're a little company, but not really a startup so I didn't upvote above. We use DB2 and MongoDB, though.
What do you want to do/be for this company? If the company is heading in the direction of building a head count and there's an opportunity for being a leader, does that even interest you? If you want it, don't be afraid that you don't know how to do it yet, this could be the opportunity to grow as the company grows.
That's how I parsed it. Not sure why you are being downvoted, except perhaps people being annoyed because the inability to replace the iPhone battery is an old complaint that they've all heard before. But I think it's a legitimate point.
Own.
It's interesting to note that many of the potential acquiring companies were the IPOs of the dot-com pre-Sarbox era. Where would we be today if some of the great companies of this last decade had been able to IPO? We would at least have a larger number of companies able to acquire more smaller-scale companies. Better for jobs and the economy, at the very least. Sadly, Washington doesn't seem to be in the mood to make any of this easier these days.
Don't use an external domain, just forward jobapplication@employer.com to incoming@applicantfilter.com and have it forward only the approved applications to hr@employer.com. Fully automated and transparent. Store the rejected applicants and send them an automated "thanks for your time" when the position is filled.
You're absolutely right, but I think video calling is actually very tightly targeted. If you watch Apple's launch video, it's all about family members who love each other but are separated. (Eg. it's not 20-somethings video calling each other to find out where tonight's party is..) And on that admittedly narrow front I think it'll be a smash hit. Right now when my wife or I are away from home, we record videos on our iphones of the other one with the kids (JUST like in their video) and have the kids say hi to the other parent.. and then email them to each other. :)

Edit: phrasing.
In some places, nations are invaded over 3000 dead. In others, you get 2 years in jail after 25 years... The different values attached to different lives are mindblowing.
I had this strange idea today when I read that Jobs invited Ive to the stage at the end of the keynote when he introduced video chat.

Is Ive a possible future CEO of Apple? Job’s successor? Is that at all plausible or possible? He doesn’t get much time on stage, in fact I can’t even remember when and if he ever was on stage last.

Pretty much everyone else you see in those videos is on stage quite often. They are doing ok, better than many execs of other companies would, but I think you are quite right: they are all pretty bland. Except Ive, that is.

Is that a totally stupid idea? Does it make any sense at all? Ive is obviously ‘only’ a hardware guy – but would that matter?
Mozilla has been removing features from Firefox to "protect" their users from themselves since version 37.
When you execute a business plan that can't possibly work without a runway bought with millions of dollars of someone else's money, there's some pretty clear causation.
We have STIR/SHAKEN but the phone companies are dragging their feet on implementing it.
This really hit home for me, as I just woke up to an email today from a client, who owed me the equivalent of a month's salary, to tell me there have been complications with payment. Basically every bill I have to pay now gets managed in the debt shuffle, once again.

I'm really over this, if employers could simply deny wages to FT employees there'd be hell to pay. Some clients deliberately use NET-90+ for freelancers as a way of managing debt, they pay off any debt with hefty finance charges first, and any vendor that doesn't have the teeth to collect or balls to charge and enforce 20% interest gets perpetually shuffled to the bottom of the pile.

I hope in a future where freelance is considered a more socially acceptable method of employment we can establish some more protective legal frameworks for the self-employed. The system as it stands is completely flawed
There were two sides - PHP was eating a ton of share from Perl for people and businesses who just wanted to get some simple web thing going. Sun pulled out the "Java is Enterprise" card early and successfully marketed it as being a professional scalable web programming solution for enterprise class applications with a few targeted buzzwords for whatever market segment they were going for. Perl seemed like it was always looked at as an amateur tool (much as PHP/ASP generally were), while Java was taken seriously in "enterprise" spaces (largely due to Sun's success at marketing Java to businesses).

There's a wrinkle, too. Perl isn't just a web thing. It was (and is) still used in "enterprise" spaces for scripting on servers. It's still out there being used to create scripts rather than applications. In that space Ruby/Python are competing, but there's still plenty of sysadmins who use Perl since it works.
That's called short-term capital gains.
The grunt-aws module makes deploying to S3 and cloudfront a breeze. We switched to this for all our FE devs awhile ago and it's been painless.

https://github.com/jpillora/grunt-aws
> They did have peer review just not on every module. This is very common even amongst companies who say they do peer review.

This is not common at all in safety-critical applications.

> I also did find it amusing that they called out lack of formal specifications as an issue given that Agile encourages you not to create them.

This shouldn't be amusing if you understand Agile. Agile is for systems where you don't yet fully know the scope or the desired end behavior. The guts of a production car are as waterfall as it possibly can get.
> what's up with the downvoting on HN lately

I've noticed a rash of downvotes on posts coming all at once lately. As if somebody gets a bug somewhere unpleasant and goes to go downvote all of that person's posts that they can.

(Which AFAICT doesn't impact karma score, but does downvote all those posts.)

> I'm seriously tempted to create my own community at this point out of desperation, one that focuses on technical merit and being nice rather than posturing.

I'm down. Email's in my profile if you want to chat about the idea.
Caterina Fake
Yes, here: http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/801222-overview
The Cray Jaguar is the fastest on the TOP500.

I'm actually in Chippewa Falls at the moment. :-)
Using a product that uses a database is not using a database.

If it were, then the winner would probably be Oracle since you are "using that database" every time you, e.g., make a purchase with your credit card. Probably multiple times since your purchase will end up in the databases of the credit card company, the bank, the merchant...
Thank you, this is exactly the kind of input I was looking for.
There's going to be limits to the amount of pressure as long as Intel doesn't offer ECC for any Atom variety microarchitecture. One of the articles I read said that they thought about using an AMD chip but it wasn't going to ship soon enough. I can see them hearing from their customers (would be and actual) that they'd buy more if they offered ECC and SeaMicro offering an AMD based box in the future.

I wonder how Atom specific the ASIC is....
The wireless was/is free as long as you spend at least $5 per month. All you need is $5 on a gift card to enable the wireless for the month. So buy a $5 gift card and at the end of the month, spend that $5 and put $5 more on the card. Silly game and not so prominently advertised, but it works (as of a few month ago when I was last in the US).
A great article, but I think it's pretty easy to delineate enough major differences between pre-oil Norway and current-day Afghanistan to render the comparison moot.
Been going through the tutorial all day (alongside my, err, actual work of course ;) ) after following this link, it's really great stuff!
Thats a pretty crappy example to put on the homepage: 13 lines of Ruby compiled into 67 lines of PHP. You could write some PHP more or less identical to the Ruby in the same original 13 lines.
Yep. Except that, HN was created primarily for the YC (or, YC and friends) community. It was open, and became increasingly popular, but, probably, still: It exists to do what it wants to do. I.e., it serves its own interests.

In that sense, pg has been quite -- perhaps incredibly -- accommodating. The world came and "spammed" his cool, informative, high signal/noise site.

He's tweaked and beaten back the worst of the, erm, "side effects" of this. I don't know him, but in my therefore somewhat uninformed impression, this is work he is willing to do, perhaps because it preserves the value he and parties he's concerned about find in the site.

But... He's not trying to sell you anything -- well, not anything about HN, per se. So, if a bunch of UI and instructions don't drive his own needs and goals, you can forget about them.

If people don't track and respond to comments, well, that also means a lot of... "defensive" comments that don't get made and therefore don't have to be policed. (I'm just... not even speculating, I'm making up one hypothetical result.)

I'm not writing this to defend the decisions, overly. Rather, to explain a bit of my own perspective on HN and perhaps how it might help a reader of this comment better relate to the site.

Sometimes, too, I find myself more in favor of such apparent decisions after I've observed for a while. When HN is not too accommodating, it may discourage some of those participants who make other sites increasingly into crapfests.
Theo Jansen also did a TED talk[0] that featured some of his kinetic sculptures.

More videos of his sculptures are available on his site[1]. I find them entrancing.

[0] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b694exl_oZo
[1] http://www.strandbeest.com/film_videos.php
The time for sites like Delicious has passed thanks to the fact that sites like Facebook and Twitter have integrated link sharing, while browsers like Firefox and Chrome have integrated bookmark synchronization.

If you think about it, that's what Delicious did - bookmark synchronization and sharing. It did them damn well in its time, but that time has passed now - that functionality is integrated into other tools, and there's no demand for a standalone service that just does bookmark sharing/sync.
The Google app for iPhone also has 'Google Goggles' and it works just as well. Quite impressive!
For the record, I ended up expanding on this as a blog post http://extendedsubset.com/?p=47 which contributed to an article at el Reg: http://www.reghardware.com/2011/04/29/sony_playstation_breac...
All your Bose are belong to MIT.
I don't think your judgement about the degree to which cable customers subsidize sports is anywhere near correct.
The global lock was removed in 2.2

https://blog.serverdensity.com/goodbye-global-lock-mongodb-2...

Now locking is on the database level.
That defeats the selling point of Uber, you don’t just get a ride in one tap knowing how much you’ll end up paying anymore, unless you’re cool paying whatever the driver feels like they should be paid. Maybe I’m misunderstanding the idea though.
when people make things because they want to, they make things that other people actually want to use. when capital directs people to make things, they do so for the purpose of creating more capital. we pretend that "making money" and "making something useful" are synonymous but they're not. look at advertising - an entire industry where nothing useful is produced but billions of dollars are spent simply manipulating people's wants and needs. at some scale, people stop being able to self-fund these projects - it's when that threshold is crossed that people start making what seem like truly bizarre decisions to hamstring the use-value of their own products, because they're instead trying to maximize their exchange value instead.
By June 2020 the tech market was hot again, that's 3 months of hiring pause, not 2 years like OP said.
In markets like Frankfurt and London, Uber has a tougher time competing. Totally agreed. It still has niches. And most taxi markets aren’t filled with lovely, knowledgeable, ambitious drivers.
That's beautiful and I love it.
Agreed with your overall point, but I have to mention that out-of-the-box C64 BASIC was so crippled, most game related I/O had to be done via POKE and PEEK, i.e. not really BASIC and as low level as it gets.

Nevertheless, it was my first programming language ever.
for me would be lack of AR/VR support as that is what I want to build apps/games for.
Larry Summers was 100% right about impending inflation. He’s been totally vindicated. I’m suspicious of where you are getting your information and suspect it’s politically motivated.
Mine are significantly harder to open in the fall when temps are around 50F versus the summer when temps average 75F. Older windows are probably more prone than brand new ones.
This is indeed a good strategy, with big volume you may actually get some extra $ on interest.
The problem is this system works on games bit less on app/music stores (i don't think many people actually use ItunesCard, GooglePlay Card and Steam Card), they just do a one shot payment every time they buy something
It actually is on GitHub[0]. I'm not sure why it wasn't mentioned in the mailing list.

[0]: https://github.com/martanne/vis
Exactly what I thought too. The falsehoods added can be general. Serving the purpose of giving direction along with motivation.
How about an embedded Lisp interpreter?
No details whatsoever but I can across this because customers at certain banks asked why their one time charges were showing up as recurring in their bank statements. I emailed in to stripe asking what was up and they let me know it was standard practice to do that, and it would do so if I used a stripe customer.
pretty high level for undergrad... i think...
Visual Studio side by side with emacs.

Most of the time on Windows Server 2k8R2 64 bits.
Dual Xeon w/12gb of ram.