jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
What went through my mind as I read the submission and subsequently decided to write my own post was the realization of how much easier it is to say "this sucks, I hate it" than it is to say "thank you, I appreciate it." I also think it's important to enumerate what I happen to like about something, because I think it's important to encourage it.

Still, it's unfortunate that explaining why one happens to appreciate something like HN is considered "ass kissing" these days. My post wouldn't read any different even if Mr. Graham were someone completely different. I appreciate HN for what it is.

Posts like yours, sadly, give me pause for thought that perhaps I jumped the gun too early, but then I am reminded that certain subsets of the community generally frown upon verbose thank yous.

I'll be more cautious in the future with regards to my praise. Thanks for correcting me.
You are right, but even after they were no longer bound by secrecy they never published anything important, which would help advance the computer technology as much as the publications of other computer projects, e.g. from Cambridge, IAS, NIST, MIT or even IBM.

I have not seen any document from them that could establish credibly how much von Neumann learned from them and how much they have learned from von Neumann.

At least in other cases where some people had secret knowledge that became public only much later, e.g. in the case of the public-key cryptography discovered by the British before Diffie-Hellman-Merkle, they could show some classified reports containing the secret knowledge.

The Eckert group has not shown any previous documents containing the ideas from the von Neumann report, but they just claimed that most ideas have already been communicated during the previous discussions of the group.

That might be true, or not, but it does not matter much.

Only the publication of the von Neumann report was really important, regardless who was the source for the ideas contained in it.
What do you mean by "when it is ready" it sounds to me like you aren't ready to drive in a self driving car, and are part of that 86% I'm actually surprised that 14% think the auto cars are ready
I highly doubt a lack of demand will be the problem for self driving tech. This survey is wildly different than giving someone the option and seeing if they take it.
I think the best comment is this in Ars:

"The reason stuff like this doesn't succeed isn't because you can't do it, it's because few people are willing to pay for the increased costs or other tradeoffs to get something repairable/configurable/upgradeable."

Which is a same, but it is what it is...
Profit maximization is not capitalism, it's human behavior. Cash is simply one measure of it. </economist_hat>
Oh I mean I know how to do it, I just mean I'd like to see companies talking about how they do it, and I'd really really like to see someone make it drop-dead simple.

It's valuable to hear how companies are protecting their infrastructure if they're going to break down how they accomplished it, how they continue to maintain it, etc.
I've only played with k8s for like an hour in total, but it's pretty obvious to me that k8s fell very much victim to the second system effect.

It's an insanely complex solution to a very niche problem - scaling stateless web app backend nodes written in scripting languages.

Stray even a little bit off the garden path and you start feeling pain.
I'm planning to buy a Tesla the second they let me buy one with bitcoin

You can buy one with BTC today. You just have to use an intermediary to turn the BTC in to USD. Why would you wait until you can send BTC directly?
Up to 80% of drivers rated themselves as 'above average' in a survey [0]

And there have been similar results in other surveys

[0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3730094/
seems too high in my experience with certain devices.
Such rules only act as an incentive to find new loopholes and waist money using them.
A large company can spend 99% of what they save in taxes to find out how to save it and its a net gain.

The solution would be to have absolute minimalist tax rules which are so simple that there wont be loopholes. Then also make judges apply common sense and smash every attempted loophole until everyone stops wasting money to find one.

Never going to happen obviously but we can dream.
> They try to get you to buy into them by convincing you it's important to "stay informed," but never really explain why.

The common explanation you hear everywhere, even here on HN, is that citizens "staying informed" is the key to an effective democracy. While it may be true in the abstract, using this as an argument for 24h news - or even daily news - is quietly omitting the fact that these news sources provide negative information value. Your worldview becomes less accurate, not more. Widespread addiction to breaking news is thus creating a less effective democracy.
What do you mean by general purpose HRTF? Do you mean that the HRTF should match the player's head somehow? I haven't played Papa Sangre so I don't really know how well it works.
upvote for linode, I'm using them for my personal server for over a year and I'm very satisfied.

They have an API for which you have documentation, stackscripts and other goodies, try it out.

You can go with slicehost as well, although I haven't tried them.
There is an ecosystem around C/C++ for supporting large codebases. There isn't anything like it (yet) for Go.

Sorry, does not compute. Go was specifically designed for large teams and big codebases.

While I find the new features of modern C++ interesting, the (lack of) tooling is what keeps me away. I simply refuse to write Makefiles or deal with preprocessor nonsense in 2015. "go build" just works. "import github.com/foo/bar" just works. "go test", "go test -bench" just work. Etc.
We're very good at what we do and plan carefully. No joke. That's it. 2-4s downtime for a 40Gb svn repo migration is what we aim for.

To be fair we haven't patched that box's kernel since it was rebooted but we really don't have to bounce kit very often. Most updates are handled through service restarts. Only updates that are an attack vector internally are actually applied too.

As for the usual problems of power, we have battery and generator backed support. Redundant NICs on two VLANs and redundant power supplies on two feeds and a RAID array obviously.

We also have a large memcache deployment that hasn't been restarted in that timescale as well. Even the memcache processes are that old. Works wonderfully.

Also CentOS is pretty damn stable.

If this was public facing it would be a slightly different story as we'd be patching the kernel too.
Australia is basically a mining province of China these days. I don't mean this in some conspiracy theory sense, simply in a practical one: you can see that the exchange rate, GDP growth etc are functions of what happens to the Chinese economy.
I don't know. If I were a private company, I'd go out of my way to avoid antagonizing nation-state level governments.
Why no comparsion with common contestants: gzip, bzip, dd?
I'm not familiar with this term/phrase "blindly questioning".
I've heard of "blindly without questioning" , which has negative connotations.

It seems like blindly questioning is far better than blindly without questioning.
Michael Snoyberg sez 1-4 months before a GHC7.10 Stackage release. Awesome! I love Stackage
Interestingly enough they have succeeded in pulling those projects down.
Smartphone - 58% of all US adults

source - http://www.pewinternet.org/data-trend/mobile/cell-phone-and-...
Not even that is enough. My train of thought was: "This is the Java thing, right?" But I wasn't sure, and it's not mentioned anywhere in the opening paragraph of that page either. Java is not mentioned until "The GWT SDK contains the Java API libraries, compiler, and development server."
The Barbary pirates routinely castrated their slaves, precluding them from doing much DNA mixing.
I am a long-time `iterm2` user, it's really nice and is actively maintained by smart people: it's always getting better. So I won't exactly try to steer you away from it, it's good.

With that said I strongly encourage you to check out WezTerm. It's exactly that GNU/Rust "chip-on-the-shoulder" type project where someone was just like: "I don't care how much work it is".

It's fast, stable, and reliable on Linux and mac OS, it has a much more user-friendly configuration experience than e.g. Alacritty (which is also cool and I used for awhile). It supports tabs and copy/paste and all the stuff you'd expect. And it has GPU-accelerated ligatures. Every other terminal emulator project just gave up on that.

And it's such a cool example of the phenomenon I'm alluding to: I tried it awhile back and it was like "My First Rust Project", but the author kept at it and at it and became seriously formidable in the process. I don't use software because I like the maintainer's attitude, but it's pleasant when the best software has a maintainer who I admire.
Coin generation rate is tied to the amount of computing resource in the network. So if you bring a cluster online the difficulty to generate coins increases.

EC2 machines are a bit too slow to generate coins in a timely manner. Even a cluster of them wouldn't be cost effective.
> there are many circumstances in life where we must suffer the same indignities
> which are not considered assault. A visit to the doctor for example.

If you are required to get groped by the receptionist before you are allowed to see your doctor, you might have a point.
You're probably thinking of the M series Broadwell chips. The Core i series isn't really out yet, but I think it should be comparable (and more efficient) than the Haswell i7 chips...
> Atmega32u4 is like $3.43.. too much when you consider that you can buy a keyboard for $4.00.

You can buy a McDonalds hamburger for $4.00 too, but if it's something you're going to eat every day let's hope you can do better than that.

I've got a prototype keyboard that is built around a $19 ARM dev board that runs a firmware written in Forth. I tried running that on the ATMega, but 2.5kb of RAM is just not enough.

You can get bare ARM chips for nearly as cheap as AVR, but most people aren't going to be interested in a kit if it requires SMT soldering, so the daughterboard approach actually makes a lot of sense here. Surprisingly it only raises the cost from $4 to $9.
Put yourself in the other developers shoes:

Imagine you are under a lot of pressure to deliver and have been behind schedule for months. You are close to breaking.

Then management hires a new developer to fix the issue. Management says they are amazing. Only it turns out the new developer is a total newbie. To top it off the new developer is cocky, can't handle feedback, and doesn't really listen.

In that kind of environment a lot of developers will go "not my problem" and do the bare minimum to help the new team member. It is not right and it is a sign of a toxic work environment but it doesn't mean the other devs are assholes.

My advice: let a couple of the other devs know you are working really hard outside of work in order to get up to speed.
Bags as well, the bread in the grocery stores is full of sugar. In the US anyway.
Lobbying can be very powerful, but it's also very far from the cynical caricature that legislation is consistently sold to the highest bidder.

One trivial example is that Google, one of the richest company in the world, has been trying to build housing in its home town of Mountain View for 20 years. Last I heard, nothing had happened.
> Is there ever going to be a next time to try and convict him? who knows.

After he’s re-elected in 2024, they can try a third impeachment.
We do need the PhDs (or otherwise trained researchers). It’s the universities that don’t.
User IDs are sensitive because they can be used by internet service providers to track and identify users as they move through various networks. And they can be associated to figure out who your contacts are. As others have mentioned, the CCP could use this information to punish users for joining rooms they don’t like.

The rule is, if ever in doubt, send all data through https. There is just about no reason to use unencrypted http or tcp in 2021.
I think, it would be best some keyboard manufacturer to invent a keyboard, which fits AROUND Apple trackpad, i.e. have keys on arcs, not on straight lines. This would be the best from ergonomics point of view, I think.
You're ignoring the main issue here: Metz has no legitimate reason for publishing Scott's name.

This would be reminiscent of the South Park planet Marklar where all people, places and things are named Marklar. It's fun for a bit but likely impractical. It's also not clear how using someone's name is 'spiteful' given the vast majority of readers would have never heard of Scott Alexander, pseudonymous or otherwise.
It can be done well. Here's a usable way to link to a certain place in an infinite page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2592741
Works great for me so far.
Largely forgotten in all this is the fact that Manning was tortured in retaliation for the leaks. That this is being treated like an afterthought, with no indication of any accountability, illustrates how far we have descended in such a short time. I hope Manning continues to speak out against torture during his time in prison.
It has momentum for me, when using the trackpad to scroll on OS X.
Exactly. Which is probably only apparent to people who RTFA.
Long before I hangouts I had lots of issues with Google talk. I started numbering my messages as in

1 Hey Joe

2 How are things in SG

3 Are you going to meet me at the airport?

4 Or shall I take a cab?

5 In any case I'll be into the city by 7pm so we can grab dinner

etc.

What we found was that Google talk was dropping messages. Lots of them.

With no way to complain and no way to prove it I just stopped using Google Talk. It was really disappointing to see it do so poorly though. Like most of the rest of you it seemed like chat was a solved issue.
Eh? Most big retail businesses finance inventory this way. Ahold (big supermarket holding company) with a market cap of 15 billion and a revenue of a little under 40 billion almost went bust a few years ago because of a similar reason. It's too expensive for a company of that size and in that market to use its own capital for financing inventory - margins are like 3 percent, 5 percent if they're selling premium products. There's no (financial) room to keep 10% of their revenues laying around in warehouses.

Besides, those that don't have credit lines from banks have them from their suppliers - with the same risks and conditions.
Here in London 'Singapore' is a running joke for describing any faceless, flavourless, rule-bound place - ie, the corporate estate in Canary Wharf where I wrote this is mocking referred to as Singapore by its residents.

Neither Sydney or Hong Kong have this reputation.
Facebook is not an alternative. More and more people refuse to use it.
I'll see if I can dig up some better #s. But a few comments...

--to get that leverage you usually have to meet some milestones (get some traction), and that is usually done from a seed round where you already gave up some dilution. I think it can be increasingly done via YC (6%) or even by one-self, but there are still certainly a lot of seed -> series A

--the eventual dilution # also includes the option pool (another 20%). Like I said in the post, not all of this may be allocated at the time of acquisition, but it may be and it does sit out there on the cap table.

--I assume you and your friends have raised from relatively well-known top tier VCs. There are tons of VC firms we've never heard of, so when you look across everything I think the #s may look different. WSGR is of course seeing top-tier deals.

--This is mainly for first time entrepreneurs, who for many reasons are often in a position of less leverage. Of course, as I said traction trumps everything, so I think you should go for that first. It's the quickest path to exit and the least dilution.
You are right, but there is a reason for that: Is called "FED", they have created money so the people could borrow money and refinance houses-education-gov or whatever at very low interest rates(zero IR, after inflation, virtual and free money).

My parents bought their house at 18% interest rate.

This is coming to an end this year, as the big bubble of all, the credit bubble, burst, people, governments(look at Europe today, USA tomorrow) just can't borrow any more, as their debt is too high.
When I see stories and images like this, 2 things cross my mind:
1) How much human potential has been lost? Did a mortar kill a future Einstein, did a small kid who had the potential to cure cancer end up in the Taliban forces and radicalised?
2) How fine the line is that most societies tread between being functional and dysfunctional. We all think it could never happen to us, when the last 60 years has seen many societies reduced to rubble and ruined. Total society loss is not a rare event by any means.
> "The iPhone dominates in UI performance"

This is compared with a iPhone 3G, which already has somewhat pokey UI performance compared to the 3GS. On Tuesday we will likely see an even faster CPU running the same codebase. Apple is moving the goalpost for UI performance seemingly faster than Google can keep up.

It is IMHO one of the main failings of Android - the UI is pokey in places where it will significantly and negatively affect adoption rates and user behavior. Scrolling is a pain on a Nexus One (haven't tried Froyo though, so...)
Exactly what I thought. A welder helmet is large enough to easily fit the electronics inside, plus as a professional product the price point may be somewhat less sensitive. Would make sense as a first, preliminary product.
Are you a foreigner or are you Chinese? I'm curious as I naively assumed that due to the unrest\resistance that even tourism in Urumqi was difficult to do legally, and therefore residence\work would be out of the question or nigh on impossible
I don't agree with that. Naming things and communicating well is something you have to do in every programming paradigm and is not specific to OOP.

IMO, if you want to see what OOP is really about you should focus on its unique features: inheritance, subtype polymorphism, etc.
Technically very nice, but please add these informations:
* who are you
* in which jurisdiction is this site located
* especially: is this site US based or in an EU country
* what happens to my data I put on your site
* please publish a general privacy policy (collection, retention, distribution to third parties etc.)

At the moment you are just demonstrating very clearly that you give a * thinking on user privacy - that is not very clever.
Not all of it. Some of it, maybe. And given that they've forked PHP maybe even less than some.

PHP sometimes doesn't get the credit it deserves for what can be accomplished with it, particularly modern PHP... but i'm not entire sure it deserves credit for this in any reasonable way.
The reason why this is totally different from adblock is that this draws attention to what is fuzzed out, rather than just ignoring it completely as with adblock/hosts files... so when you see something fuzzed out, you are like "woah is that lucky charms or what?" (based on the fuzzed colors). With adblock/hosts you see nothing so you have nothing to focus your attention upon.

Don't get me wrong this sounds like a fun project though.
Or, rather than talking in vague terms like "forever" versus "longer lifespan", or "forgetting" versus "reliable memory", we could quantify exactly what we want, and then treat it as an optimization problem (specifically, of the integral of the (memory of choices made + potential for remaining choices) curve over your lifetime.) http://lesswrong.com/lw/xy/the_fun_theory_sequence/
Even in the US it costs $500+. The trick is that AT&T hides this cost in their 2 year contract to keep you happily locked in for ever.
Yes but there's a difference between occasional extra work to hit a tight deadline and routine 60 hour weeks. You will want to know what you're getting into.
The cycling rate in Århus Denmark is almost as good as Copenhagen and it's quite a hilly city.
But what we have is CI tools with integrations to a million things they shouldn't probably have integrations to.

Most of the build should be handled by your build scripts. Most of the deploy should be handled by deploy scripts. What's left for a CI that 'stays in its lane' is fetching, scheduling, and reporting, and auth. Most of them could stand to be doing a lot more scheduling and reporting, but all evidence points to them being too busy being distracted by integrating more addons. There are plenty of addons that one could write that relate to reporting (eg, linking commit messages to systems of record), without trying to get into orchestration that should ultimately be the domain of the scripts.

Otherwise, how do you expect people to debug them?

I've been thinking lately I could make a lot of good things happen with a Trac-like tool that also handled CI and stats as first class citizens.
Money and data are very different in this regard.

The systems that keep track of our money are (usually) very secure [0] and when they aren’t there is recourse to fix the damage. A thief can not use the stolen money if the transaction is reversed, but everyone on the planet can abuse your data once it is leaked.

[0] At least more secure than the systems those same companies use for their consumer data (see: Equifax).
Setting up a cycle lane in place is cheap, but not easy (at least in North America, people will always complain about the "war on cars").

Also, setting up a good cycle lane can be more expensive than you think. If you have a nice bike lane that spreads over 5 km but there's a 200 meters gap in it because of a bridge which was too narrow to keep the bike path, then you don't have a nice lane at all.
Before shelter in place I commuted by bike in notoriously hilly San Francisco and biggest concerns was people on cars acting aggressively or having a safe place to lock the bike, not hills.

Electric bikes are also an option that allows more people to ride in a wider range of situations that would otherwise be a limitation, including hilly terrain.
> This is partly because electric cars aren’t truly zero-carbon – mining the raw materials for their batteries, manufacturing them and generating the electricity they run on produces emissions.

Ok. But then unless you're hand making the bikes out of wood you scavenged from fallen trees and don't use rubber tires, neither are bikes.

Like many pro cycling articles this one is one sided and assumes there is one solution to our environmental problems. Sure, we need people to cycle more, but we also need electric cars, changes in how and where we live, changes in what we eat, etc.

Probably the fastest way to impact all of this is internalizing the cost of carbon into all of our activities.. ie a big fat carbon tax.
is it strange to anyone else how similar the logos for https://streamlit.io/ and https://getstream.io/ are?
No argument.. I strongly dislike go, myself.
I'd like to dig into that study, because it feels impossible to me. Whether I work at home or an office, I have the same errands to run. Either way I'm going to plan my trip.

The only thing I can think of is that I might spread out the errands more across the week since I don't have to do it after work.

But anecdotally, my wife and I both started being home full time six years ago, and despite have kids since then (which greatly adds to the places one needs to go), our overall milage went way down, to the point where we even got rid of a car. After the pandemic, when the kids start doing a lot more after school activities, we may not even get a second car because Uber/Lyft can cover the rare trip that needs to happen simultaneously.