jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
They actually can. E.g. to start a WordPress site, one can do with a shared hosting with an ftp access. With FireFTP for Firefox, you don't have to leave the browser. You can install WordPress by just copying it over, as well all the plugins and themes you need.

This level of simplicity of deployment is a good thing to have for any project. Even David Heinemeier Hansson have commented positively on the immediacy of PHP: http://www.loudthinking.com/posts/23-the-immediacy-of-php I see that Arc is a research project that may have other priority at the time, but this landmark of usability is a good thing to keep in mind.
> clients are much more conservative

Not true. Financial clients spend BIG and invest often in cutting edge tech to develop & advance their quantitative trading and high frequency trading businesses.

The full stack from cables to networking to application needs to be as good as it can be. Your solving problems of big data, real time and it MUST work. Financial tech people are some of THE best in the business, solving some of the most challenging problems out there.

It's probably true to say that some finance institutions are practically software houses - with some of the big IB's employing more tech people than they do business function.

Like others have said, there are huge opportunities in finance, but you need some serious tech to compete.
Actually that's a cool screenshot. It looks retro-cool rather than old. Nice work.
http://188.165.220.116:8081/str/ner/playlist.m3u8
Given that they were pretty desperate and had been referred to you on personal references, why did you agree to no-cure, no-pay?

Is it something they proposed or you? Seems like you could lose a lot and win little - and for them, the biggest risk was not your fee, but whether or not the system got up and running, so why bother?

Is it something you do a lot?
You don't lose "type safety", as interfaces retain all type information -- you're not casting `void*` pointers (without the unsafe package), and type conversions are limited and well defined.

It however does pass the type checking to run-time instead of compile-time, which is a trade-off that some feel is worth the language simplicity.
For a lot of us, a desktop is just too big and too much work. A laptop is easy, it's everything right in front of you, it's fast enough, it's cheap enough, and it's portable. Aside from serious business use (trading, rendering, etc), gamers, programmers and data hoarders, there's not really a great reason for the average person to have a desktop anymore.

Laptops that were built with thermals in mind actually do quite well at full load. I used to play a decent amount of games on my Lenovo Y500 when it was new and it could do full load for hours and hours without getting hot. It was still less noisy than my Macbook. The secret is to build a high diameter fan and a wide fan vent. Unfortunately Apple seems to think that being thin is more important. It's certainly easier to market.
At least tests 3, 4, 5, 6, the first 3 cases of test 7, the first and third cases of test 11, 13, 16, 17, 18, 20, 21 cases 1 and 2, 22, the first two cases of 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 tests 2 and 4, 30, and 32 can be optimized without this issue, if not more.

As I said, "some of these are not in fact equivalent, but at least some of them are".
I saw a talk of one of you guys... you mentioned that it took a lot of experimentation before you even considered not using plain JS. But you should also not downplay your achievement! You did a great (maybe not complete) port of Objective-C/Cocoa which was good enough to be used by a lot of people and good enough for Motorola. :)

And Apple is certainly in a better position to do such ports than you were back then: They have the full source code of every framework they developed. I am not saying it is trivial or not much work but it is doable over a couple of years... don't you think? You have certainly more internal knowledge than I do.
> This means that you don’t have to touch the accelerator during stop and go traffic because it will do it for you

To be fair this kind of technology has been on top end Mercedes for a while (10yrs plus) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eU83G3OaJuU#t=115

I drove one a few summers ago as a chauffeur for Farmers Classic, it was all in/around LA so was incredible on jammed freeways, It's nothing new though or Tesla specific.
The biggest issue with this would be displacement. A underwater vehicle that large would displace enough water that it could be tracked by satellite. It would also be a big enough whole in the water from a sound point of view to be easily tracked. That kind of negates the entire purpose of being hidden.
Oh shut up already with big block phobia. BSV proves that big blocks is the most rational way to scale. The small block mantra started by blockstream completely rotted the crypto space
A reasonable lesson should already think it's possible for other reasonable people to hold different opinions, and not feel threatened by them. It's only in this bullshit really of the internet that we decided to start interpreting the things other people say as "potential facts in need of disputing" rather than just "the utterances of peers". The former mode implies a level of deference that we don't take on in public, face-to-face conversations.
I never use a password, but I do use a passphrase like something similar to the one used in XKCD 936[0]. There's a few open source diceware[1] generators on Github that you should look at.

[0] https://www.xkcd.com/936/

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diceware
You really don’t need to know transaction isolation to do the vast majority of work on a typical web app.
Yes, it seems pretty clear that the author feels oppressed by Amazon: "To put it bluntly, the user is not just exploited by means of their free labor, but is also forced to assume the energy costs of such exploitation."
I've pitched that idea for my part-remote company, because remote workers really left behind. I wonder, why just once a month?
You mean the first world privilege of "Big SUVs with the AC turned down to 65"?

Yes, it is stunning.

Especially when its being confused to something like a basic human right -- that everybody should just adopt, instead of the spoiled result of a consumerist society, enabled by first world wages and cheap energy (subsidised by exercising global power).

As is the idea that the lifestyle of your country (or your adopted country) is the best in the world, and everyone should follow suit, with big SUVs and AC to 65" -- and if they don't do it, it's only because they can't afford it (never mind that places that can very well afford SUVs and full-on AC blast, like in most of Western Europe, happen to shun both as tacky).
I also don't agree. If you're just screwing around with something, fine. If you're installing something upon which you intend to develop a professional piece of software, you should go through the true install process. Too many Windows developers are far too ignorant of the platforms upon which they develop their code (in general, not pointed at parent at all).
No matter what he says, he can't win. Some will blame him for keeping the scanners in place and the others will play the political game blame him for being weak on security (even if they know the scanners are useless)
I agree completely. Enlive has really blown me away.
It is ironic but I think there is some truth to it. The gmail client for android is way better than anything available for iPhone, and so ultimately unless Apple is willing to offer apps that are roughly as good, it might as well allow users to use Google's.

I could see someone choosing Android just for the gmail app if email was very important and the other iPhone advantages didn't outweigh it. Mail.app for iPhone reminds me of the bad old days of email.
Regardless, do watch the baby dancing.
Not true, the are advantages to programatically generated HTML using a mini language that simply can't be ignored. See http://seaside.st
Very fast!
See under extensions/ https://github.com/bridgedxyz/github.surf

It's basically all custom scripts to replace extra code to origin vscode repo.
But then we would never have inflation because not all goods will increase in price at the same time. It takes time until money trickles down through the system doesn’t it ?
It’s just obviously untrue too.
That applies to any government. US lies, cheats, steals as admitted by Mike Pompeo when he was head of CIA.
BIPLAN (Byte-coded Interpreted Programming Language) is an experimental programming language based on a recursive descent parser that uses only static memory allocation and operates a completely software-defined virtual machine that does not require a garbage collector. It's human-readable language called BIPLAN is compiled in an 7-bit ASCII virtual-machine language called BIP.
There is also mounting evidence that the virus was in France in November.

Now, it still most likely came from China but this adds to the reasonable suggestion that the Wuhan market was simply the first large outbreak but not near the origin of the virus.

My 2c is that the virus will be found (if we do find its origin) to come from a rural area in Southern China.
Or 3 - Users have a new requirement outside of any existing solution and perceive building their own solution in Airtable as being quicker, easier and cheaper than dealing with the people in IT.

I’ve been in a position before where talking to IT to get something small made means absolutely tonnes of work producing business cases, requirements documents, asking for funding, only to be told the huge bill to produce something internally isn’t worth paying, for something that takes a few hours to build and implement yourself sitting next to the team that’s going to use it. Ok it’s not supportable, but it’s airtable!

In my current role as a ops/logistics consultant, when I talk about IT change to clients a lot of the time the question comes back as “can we find a way to do this without talking to our IT team? You can’t get anything done through them without it costing at least X”.
It's a fair question. A bunch of the larger guys like Charles Schwab and TD did implement restrictions as well.

In their case, it may not have been a necessity to maintain liquidity for other assets, but capping the exposure to how much capital they were putting down for it probably still made sense.
Maybe it's a clever ruse to bring more Bitcoin sites into existence.
I stopped reading the examples after the second one and scrolled straight to the end, to confirm my suspicion that there was actually no useful information in the article at all.
The difference is that in the Schrödinger case you're effectively 'turning' the solution (in the complex plane) which leads to the uncomfortable question of whether the solution to the heat equation you'd start with is still defined. When going from heat to Black-Scholes you're just rescaling in 'existing' dimensions which doesn't change the character of the PDE.
I wish there was a version of this that only contained examples relevant to e.g. the Gregorian calendar, or even within the subset of the Gregorian calendar specified within POSIX.

I get whiplash going back and forth between "relevant thing I need to care about" and "obviously irrelevant" in this list
If you're fine with the performance of a 2-core Kaby Lake and rather big bezels around the display, the Google Pixelbook is pretty awesome otherwise.
It really is.

Even if you dont like the macOS GUI, I dont think any reasonable evaluation could call macOS 'crap overall'.

Distros like Ubuntu, are excellent, but they just dont have feature parity with macOS.
https://github.com/google/yapf
Replies to his tweet are just top notch.

“your memes do have out-of-touch-dad-trying-to-be-cool energy tho”
Please don't do this here. We ban accounts that post like this, and have had to ask you not to before.

I'm not going to ban you because you've mostly been posting good comments lately, which is cool. But comments like this do more damage than good comments add value, so please don't do that anymore.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html, we'd be grateful.
What was the offending material?
Airtel has no issues via google dns.
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I most often see that kind of thing from parents who are trying to compensate for failing to be present in more fundamental ways.
Sure, if you pretend we aren't already paying for health care and don't credit that against the price of MFA, MFA looks awfully expensive!
The money will come from folk not paying for private health insurance and wildly expensive hospital bills. No money printer needed.
It seems like you might be missing part of this discussion: with widespread environmental collapse as described -- irreversible decline -- humanity faces extinction, regardless of the number of jobs in the economy.
The funny thing though is that the F-16 evolved into a multi-role fighter and became quite good at it :)
Meet the US government... Triple DES is still used for backwards compatibility in banking
Low end is Air to dirt against shepherds with rusty Kalashnikovs. The best plane for that is the A-10. Interestingly, exactly the plane the Army grunt and brass loves and the Air Force Brass wants to get it killed ASAP.
My question would be: if you buy N drones for price of one F-35, do you get better military value for your money or not?

At the very least, N drones can't be destroyed at once (unless stored really carelessly) and can be individually specialized in a way that provides wider spectrum of capabilities.

A massive bonus: pilotless aircraft can perform manoeuvres unsurvivable for humans, and the ability to maneuver was always a strong point in the air.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embraer_EMB_314_Super_Tucano#U...
Disclaimer - I used to work for Mesosphere.

On the topic of arrogance, I wasn't in that meeting referenced, but having worked with most people there who could have been, and being a Brit who's worked for west coast startups like that for nearly 10 years, it's that American confidence, outlook and drive (along with Sand Hill road) that contributes to so much success out there. I'm a fan, but have to check myself every time i use 'super' as an adjective.

Tech vs Product is a good comparison to make. I banged my head many times on DC/OS (the commercial version of Mesos) and underlying Mesos itself. Solid tech, but I'd have liked to have seen the product develop faster, to realise its potential in the enterprise market, which was huge.
Not OP, but usually "bottled" water is taken away for environmental reasons, replaced by filtered faucets, which are often non maintained and cleaned properly.
Most companies institute code reviews and invest in tooling that stops nonstandard code (formatting and convention-wise) getting into the codebase, once they grow large enough. I think these two processes serve the same purpose, albeit with numerous exceptions depending on the seniority of the committer and reviewer(s) :)
Send an email to the mods hn@ycombinator.com

They try new variants and tweaks, and sometimes they make mistakes.
> Yes, there were [..] some major challenges with the basic fundamentals of their model . But there were many (hundreds of thousands?) of real users in many cities paying them money for office space.

Sorry to be somewhat off-message for HN, if there are "major challenges with the basic fundamentals" who actually cares how many users they have, and how happy they were with the product?
"Moxie, as an individual, is a paid technical advisor to MobileCoin"
Or how about apps "helpfully" surfacing photos of my daughter -- who died eight months after her birth -- with slogans like "Celebrate [her] birthday!" Sometimes I wonder how many people have become addicts or lost hope because things we otherwise would have forgotten are shoved back into our consciousness because or such reminders.
My personal price would probably be a little less than I use to pay for a train ticket. Maybe £300 a month.

However, once this all settles down and I know what the conditions are it will probably be reinvested in a dedicated office space, either in a larger home or possibly a garden room.
This site also had a sadly predictable example of the point raised in the history section - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18273530
Thought it would be a machine learning text to image based on what is being described. Now my brain is stuck on what a speech to text to image model would generate when being driven by a dungeon master.
It's a fun exercise to implement FFT and other DSP algorithms, but for real-world software please stick to true and tested libraries like FFTW or FFTPACK instead of your own naïve implementation.
Per sample. One sample a few small containers can be tested for hundreds of things.

I've only ever sent one sample at a time but I could imagine that if one were sending many samples one could negotiate better prices. I've never tried negotiating them down.
Apparently this sophisticated new AI still fails the Turing Test... for now.
A friend of mine set one off when we were traveling in Australia. We talked with the guard (who very 100% ralaxed) and he said that setting off the detector is incredibly easy. While he was searching my friend's purse, we were told that some of the chemicals used in make up can set it off. After finding nothing, we were free to continue. Took all of 3 minutes, no additional security, no prolonged questioning, just a simple check and go.
So what does the Ramadan have to do with this? It could have happened any month.
"Wow" can only refer to how bad the writing was.

I found that sentence to be a non sequitur, illogically and gratuitously tacked on as an appeal to sentiment over rationality, and absolute bit of overwritten purple prose.

"Oh! The irony!"
Fibre Channel and Infiniband tried that.
I'm curious. What is the blog post that tore "Why we sleep" apart?
It's offtopic.
If one of your top commands is `clear`, you may like my alias `c`:

$ alias c='clear &&'
$ # Usage:
$ c git status

[1]: https://github.com/grantzvolsky/skel/blob/ea43b1969463a97f96...
Yes, by visualisation of the future.

There are many ways to do this, like meditation, or some substances.

You basically imagine yourself in the future, having achieved some goal, or being in a situation that you like. This image has to be rich and invoke many emotions, so it becomes engraved in your neural paths.

You then work backwards from there, imagining different roads and specific steps on how to achieve that.

It literally and physically changes your brain over time, as you repeat it.
Yes, I agree with you. Many of the barrier instructions will end up as internal NOPs. Performance wouldn't be terrible. Power may suffer.
I agree with this. One thing I’d add from personal observation: things get more interesting the more time you spend with them. I’ve done ‘total immersion’ kinds of things with both math and the boardgame Go, with pretty good results in both cases. I pretty much just kept the topic around all the time for a sustained period. Sometimes that meant reading about history or philosophy of the subject, consuming related media, etc.

Didn’t take long before I could look at a Go board and get sucked in, or at least have a fairly profound aesthetic experience if it was a nice configuration.

Took a lot longer with math, and there what I get is generally like reading about a nice idea from a sci-for short story.

I don’t think this would work without some genuine interest/curiosity in the subject to begin with though. And there were times with both where I was intimidated or there were tasks I needed to do in order to improve that I didn’t want to do, which seems fine as long as there’s a larger portion of gratifying experience.
Things i’ve learned after 20 years :

- understand and care about context. Understand the input and output of what you’re developing. Why people need it to function a certain way. And how people are actually going to use it.

- business trumps tech (most of the time). Not just in matter of how well a company will perform financially, but also in everyday developer life. For example : a different business model may imply a different tech stack choice (and that’s just one example). Understand and care about the business side of the place you’re working in. It’ll also helps you greatly communicating with your managers.
Yep, sure, you can glue and duck tape a cool demo in two hours. Somehow that doesn't seem to translate to actually building and maintaining real products, where the demand for developer time seems virtually infinite, and everything ends up released in a buggy alpha tier state that never gets fully fixed to a mature state.

And somehow my experience using computers & software hasn't gotten dramatically better in the past two decades. Most of the improvement can be attributed to long term hard work (software that I used 20 years ago is today easier to configure and/or has been replaced by something that is easier to configure, and it's not because they rewrote it by throwing some glue and libraries at python over a weekend) or improvements in hardware.
Yes. There is beauty in everything, if you look hard enough you can find it. This is something I've routinely done in my life, and I attribute it to most of my success. At some point in university I learned to enjoy doing my assignments and school work, which paid off dramatically.

However, I think that a prerequisite to this is to be a naturally curious person.
Transmeta did this. It emulated the x86 ISA, though the actual ISA was not x86. They did a demo of it translating JVM bytecode directly to its own VLIW ISA with no x86 running at all.
I've already bought!
Have we forgotten about Kinect so soon?
Yeah right. Stakeholders and investors wouldn't approve of such democracy on their platform.
My dad grew up with "party lines", as they were called back then, with over 10 lines.

The number of rings determined who the call was for and anyone (even in different houses on the same line) could pick up and listen in or talk on the line.
The website appears to be down. Having said that...

I may not be remembering this correctly, but didn't most mobile phones also have a walkie-talkie feature built-in in the 90's ? I don't think any have that now.
> who's going to be the arbiter of what exactly constitutes intolerant or harmful speech?

Someone needs to do it, though. You don't get free license to incite violence anywhere, and no one thinks that's a good idea. You can't do it here on HN. You can't do it on Reddit. Why should you be able to do it on Facebook?

Now, sure, there's a question as to whether Trump's posts yesterday went quite as far as you think they'd need to be considered "inciting violence". But that's a judgement call. You don't want Facebook carrying a call to attack congress, you just think that's not what Trump did.

But if there is a call for a mob to sack the seat of government and attack a joint session of congress, I think we all agree that Facebook should be allowed to censor the fuck out of that.