jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Definitely the Sammezzano castle is on top of my list. Situated in Tuscany (near Florence) its owner had a crush for oriental culture. Thus, he decided to build this very peculiar castle in which each room follows a different arabic or middle-eastern architectural style. Pictures and more history here: https://www.homeinitaly.com/magazine/post.php?post_id=176.

Unfortunately it is privately owned and its kinda hard to register for a visit.
That's one of the drawbacks of Google in general. I think if you want to buy Ads and have a big account with them, perhaps you can talk to a human.
This is wonderful. In depth, but with all the basics.
I drink a lot of coffee and believed I was addicted. If I didn't have 2 to 3 cups in the morning, I would feel tired and irritable and suffer (mild) headaches. Once, I bought a jar of instant coffee of a different brand and drank my usual 2 to 3 cups every morning. After 2 weeks of this my gf pointed out to me that the coffee we'd been drinking was decaf. I'd had zero "symptoms of withdrawal".
A lake, forrest and 25 kms road. Perfect for lots sports to clear your head.

Free drinks, fruits and lunch. One worry less to think about.

Office doors. Silence to get something done.
I bet that in some startups, the following answer applies: "The same thing we do every night, Pinky - try to take over the world!"
IMO, the obvious solution to this madness is to quantize stock trades; i.e. to only allow stock prices to change once every 10 seconds.

As long as transactions weren't announced until the end of the period, there wouldn't be any benefit from microsecond advantages. And then stock trades would begin to go back to being based on the value of the stock, not what a model says it will do in the next 2 seconds.
Clicky: https://twitter.com/#search?q=%23mathsjam
Go to the city. Go out in Palo Alto. Work. Play board games with friends.
I do think that vocational education in terms of job ready skills does need to be separated in some way from a theoretical university education which isn't designed to what employers want. The problem is I don't know if universities could afford to maintain the more traditional form of education while also offering vocational training.
It's been down for over an hour. For some of us who work on projects during weekends, this IS one of the busiest times.

I don't know about you but seeing mine and other people's repositories and history completely gone is unsettling, to say the least.

And regarding being able to work without it - well, I happen to need to look into the source code for some of the libraries I depend on.
And it's 4% the other direction if you use the net worth number. He defines wealth as (net worth - home value) so I don't know that it's a good metric
I wouldn't be so extreme, providers of '0' keys would flourish
It turns out there are places outside of court that care about actual evidence. Like in science, history, or reputable journalism. I know you don’t care about that though, so I wish you good luck in life.
I really don't when a private company decides who gets air time and who doesn't. Oh well it's the world we live in.
Out of curiosity, did you think the CHAZ/CHOP protests earlier this year were an attempt at succession or revolution?
Kicking out social platforms during quarantine is evil. This is the last way some folks have of talking to other people. There is no other word for it. Pure evil.
Fundamentally I believe this should be an anti-trust violation. But then I think the whole "only allow your own software to run on your patented hardware (which you therefore have a government granted monopoly on)" should be an anti-trust violation too.

Taking it as a given that Apple has the right to control what software people run on the IPhones that they own. And taking it as a given that we have apparently decided aggressively deplatforming these people is the right action (which I also disagree with in general [1] - but my objection doesn't actually apply in this case). I'm not sure that I see why Apple controlling it's platform is different than reddit/facebook/twitter/youtube controlling their platform, and if there is no relevant distinction then this seems like reasonable corporate speech.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25688130
Did a quick skim and dont see why not. There's examples to receive the message. It's up to you what you want to do with it afterward.
You're taking the empathetic path and I wish more people did as well. I think the past 4 years were deeply traumatic for most of the progressive left. They control these institutions and they want to make damn sure Donald Trump never happens again.
For those of us who refuse to submit to Twitter terms of service, what is the link?
It quotes them in the article.
protect from what?!
As I add to almost every thread where this comes up, Privoxy is best used (IMO) with a well-maintained ABP list. Converters such as https://github.com/skroll/privoxy-adblock work pretty well for this task (put it on a cron and/or use LaunchControl to wrangle the update mechanism: http://www.soma-zone.com/LaunchControl/ )

I wonder if Privoxy would compile / install on the Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Lite (it should, since it just runs an ARM build of Debian, but firmware updates would possibly wipe away all your set-up). I'm also not sure if the little ERLite has enough horsepower to efficiently handle running a filtering proxy with tons of rules.
But the examples you mention (Linux, Emacs, terminal emulator) are, in a sense, not end-user applications. They're platforms that run the actual end-user application. The actual programs you run in the terminal are probably more prescriptive (embedded in the "do one thing and do it well" philosophy); the same thing goes for the functionality you use in Emacs.

You want libraries and platforms to be descriptive, and end-user functionality to be prescriptive. They're different types of software.
> My personal favorite: how long is a month?

One solution is to distinguish between a "datetime" and a "duration". You cannot convert a duration to days (or really anything). You can add or subtract a duration from a datetime, and you can convert the difference between two concrete datetimes into days.

And that's actually how some libraries already implement it.

So the answer to "how long is a month" is "it depends, and I can only say if you apply this duration to a concrete time".
ERP Implementations go well for 2 types of companies. Type 1 companies have well documented, logical consistent processes and procedures that server as clear spec for necessary ERP modifications.

Type 2 companies admit that everything they do is wrong and they are willing to change all of their processes and procedures to match those of the ERP system.

Everyone else is deluded into thinking they can modify the ERP to adapt to their business. 10 months into the development cycle, team members realize that the firm requirement that A customer has One customer number is incorrect, and it happens to be a major customer, and there is not a workaround. Sales insists that it is a one to one relationship most of the time and refuses to believe this a big deal. Accounts Receivable thinks they could develop a manual workaround. Modification proceed until the money runs out, and the consultant move on to the next victim. 10 years later the new CEO want to embark on a modernization project for internal backend systems and the cycle repeats.
"my definition" is literally the creation of a safe space so your views can remain unchallenged.

Really fun to watch you types contradict yourselves at every turn.

Valid critique is not "cancel culture", if you can't stand behind your own opinions then maybe you should try to understand why you relinquish in the face of any criticism whatsoever and retreat to hide to your safe space.
The NYTimes has wonderful obituaries too. In conventional newspapers junior reporters write these and it is pretty boiler plate. In superior news sources these are works of art by senior journalists.
None of this is germane to the legality of his treatment by the police. I’m not a doctor but from the ones I’ve spoken to they are highly skeptical that his death was caused by anything other than from having a knee on his neck for more than 9 minutes. That you bring up him starring in a porno indicates you have no objectivity in this matter.
Repairability and maintainability is the big one for me. I don't mind buying a disposable car, but then that disposable car better last 10 years (or 150K miles) and cost 15K.

If they are selling cars for 40K, then those cars need to be cheap to maintain and service, so they can stay on the road for 30 years with say, 5K parts costs over those 30 years. Or stay on the road for 40 years with 20K parts costs, etc. There are many Toyotas and Hondas as well as good trucks that last forever -- basically with a lifetime limited by body rust. If you have a 2000 Celica, even if you aren't a mechanic, a brand new retail OEM AC compressor is $700 and you can get it replaced for $100 in labor. Strut replacement will cost you $400 retail parts with maybe $250 labor. 2000 Toyota Celicas drive great, you can pick one up for 2-3K, and maintain it for $500/year, it'll last another 10 years. 20mpg city, 30 mpg highway, handles well, with nice styling. When I start seeing numbers like that for 20 year old Teslas or Leafs, I'll know they are seriously addressing the mass market of ordinary car buyers, as it is the experience of users on the tail end of a car's life that determines the depreciation paid by those who buy the car new - which is the single largest cost of ownership for new car buyers - and so long term repair costs determine the overall value provided by the car for everyone who owns it across its lifecycle, even if they are only rotating through a series of three year leases.
Windows Mobile/iOS?
Arguably Office and Google Docs.
Good point. I was focused on how I use Dropbox today, which is to sync media between my various devices (this seems to be where the company seems to be heading). But Dropbox did win largely because of flawless product execution, and IIRC was initially focused on the backup problem.
What the lede of the article actually said: "China should reduce its excessive foreign exchange reserves and further diversify its holdings, Tang Shuangning, chairman of China Everbright Group, said on Saturday."

What the headline of the article actually was: "China should cap forex reserves at 1.3 trillion U.S. dollars: China banker"

What the HN guidelines say about changing article titles: "You can make up a new title if you want, but if you put gratuitous editorial spin on it, the editors may rewrite it."
I can only speak of personal experience (and having spent time with RMS twice in total, several years apart that's not a lot).

My experience of him was that publicly he wants people to value free software, but it's a means to an end. I don't actually have a problem with about 60% of what he has to say on the matter. Open source software fuels innovation and as long as people can still fund further innovation I'm happy with that. However, what I object to is the idea that only FSF-papal-blessed software constitutes free software. If I want to release my software under a BSD licence, it's not free software because RMS doesn't think it is. That's my problem with him, at least professionally speaking. On a personal note I don't think we'd get along - primarily because (and credit to him) that entire argument is pretty much his life (as far as anyone can say from meeting him twice).

Now I could be completely wrong about all of this, and maybe RMS is a pragmatic standup guy and I just got the wrong impression, but even Theo De Raadt had a sense of humour.
Its faster in terms development + time spent fixing bugs.

If you want it out now, but have loads of bugs sure. But i'm pretty sure most managers don't mean that, when they say they want it out sooner.
My home Macs have all been 8gb for the past 11+ years and never wished for more ram. (MBP 17, MBP 13, Mini, MBA M1). I've done light dev on them, I even run a Windows ARM VM on my M1 Air and play Steam games through it.

That said, my work provided machines have always been much higher specced.
It's unfortunate, but bikeshedding will always be with us so long as there is no model-presentation separation of source code. That lapse allows all these pointless[1] arguments to continue.

Take an online store. In its database, you wouldn't refer to an individual product by English name; you'd use a UUID. No one's going to argue over what the UUID hex value should be. But in plaintext source code, human names and delimiters do matter, even though they are just one way to prettify an AST.

[1] Arguing over syntax is pointless in most contexts, but the ergonomics of syntax do matter socially! Which makes the arguments all the more infuriating.
Ah yes, the people who make what you want are "immoral thieves".

It's insane how people somehow arrive at that point in their thinking.
Let's imagine you care about educational outcomes and child poverty, what kinds of things would help?

Certainly free and easy access to sex education, contraception and abortion is something that is a good policy.

People, even poor people, have always, and will always want children.

Once children are born to poor parents, you need to address that poverty, or you will get poor educational outcomes for those children.

Certainly stigmatizing poor people, rather than focusing on bad luck they have had, will provoke different policy outcomes.
> With a native speaker you could shred through those books fairly quickly.

I'm not sure this applies equally to Chinese, as it's not a phonetic language. Extensive speaking/listening practice isn't totally transferrable to reading tasks. There are many things I can hear for which I might not recognise the characters (because I seldom see them written) and, equally, there are characters for which I know the meaning (because I read them when shopping online, and have seen them in context a lot) but not the sound.
I think this or part of this is what was on that shareware disk I got at the computer fair http://www.textfiles.com/piracy/CRACKING/act-13.txt the Buckaroo Bonzai Cracking the IBM PC sounds real familiar.
Well, I guess I should thank the great firewall then, for my kids hardly ever watch YouTube, or tv.
* Can't go faster than light (or even a large fraction of the limit)

It's my weak understanding that because of time dilation & length contraction I could climb aboard a sufficiently powerful ship and travel 10,000 light years before dieing of old age. But, when I got there, I would find that 10,000+ years had passed at the destination while they waited for me. And, that if I made a return trip, Earth would be 20,000+ years older. But, importantly, /I/ would not necessarily be 20,000 years older.

So, the speed of light still sucks, but it mainly sucks if you care about returning home. If you give up on that goal, relativity does not say it's impossible to travel to arbitrarily far locations in human-scale timeframes.

Am I misunderstanding?
To add to GP's point, telling the audience they're being deceived makes the trick even harder to pull off. I'm sure many will run along with the trick, but some people like me will keep an eye on suspicious moves and, as GP said, still love to be deceived even when paying attention.

That's why I love up-close magic tricks and loathe magician TV shows full of cut shots and stooges in the audience.

EDIT: Either Criss Angel or Dynamo just downvoted me! :P
They dont define anything, they are tautological.
> Then, of course, run compressed air (or vacuuum?) lines through their house.

This is fascinating to me and I respect the dedication to principles that it demonstrates, independent of any logical arguments one could apply.

I'm curious, where does the energy for the compressed air come from -- surely there's not an electric compressor out back? I had always understood the Amish philosophy re: electricity as an explicit decision to take things slowly, value hard work, etc by using human or animal power; how did the folks you met justify use of compressed air?
Hope there will be a way to provide illustrations, diagrams, etc so people can better discuss the source at a higher level. The pics for HandMade Hero are nice:

https://forums.handmadehero.org/index.php?option=com_content...
Britain drives on the left. Most people are right hand and right eye dominant, so driving on the left is inherently superior. This is why racing drivers use a gear stick on the left, for example.

I simply attribute Britain's improbably good driving safety record - in spite of having a road infrastructure that is not any better than that on the continent - to driving on the left and not having people constantly take their dominant hand off the steering wheel and put their dominant eye at a disadvantage.
Well, you could always buy a Mac.

It's just a question of the degree of lock-in. And Apple is a master of lock-in: purchased apps for iOS and Mac OS X don't work anywhere else, FairPlay prevents movies purchased from iTunes from working elsewhere, AirTunes is locked via DRM to iTunes, things like MagSafe are protected with patents to maintain their profit margins, and so on.
Actually, check out Adobe Air (for ajax developers). Basically it's webkit as a desktop app and pretty mature.

I've used it in the past, but I think Mozilla has a big opportunity here as Adobe has pretty much abandoned the web desktop aspect of AIR to focus on flash/flex for mobile.

Also, Adobe removes some of the best parts of webkit like web workers and I recently found a giant performance bug in their javascript engine that only exists in AIR.
The Gentoo community might be interested in this.
Looks like the decision to stop development of Mozilla Prism was not a bad one. "appify" looks very interesting.
Definitely what Microsoft participated in has been much shadier. I'm not sure it can be reasonably argued otherwise.

Everything from forcing hardware vendors to bundle their OS to forcing Internet Explorer installs to the infamous Halloween documents to their covert dealings with SCO & everyone else over Linux and patents.

Surprisingly, it still seems pretty hard to get the hardware I want without paying for a Windows OS I:

1.) Won't use, because I'd throw Linux on it.
2.) Don't need, because I already have several valid Windows licenses which are unused.

But yes, certainly some of Apple's walled garden/30% actions are alarming.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_antitrust
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_documents
It's not so much coding that can benefit, but conceptualizing the architecture of the system as a whole, which is where the greatest gains in efficiency and elegance are to be found.
> No, it’s not possible. And don’t try from settings import INSTALLED_APPS, it won’t work.

Dang, I wish someone had told me that. I use it all the time, and it works for me just fine. No circular reference errors or anything else of the sort.
In my computer security class in uni, my professor quickly listed various ways your computer could be compromised in ways you wouldn't expect and this was one of them. He didn't get into detail unfortunately, just that things could be inferred from the heat of your monitor/computer. He also mentioned driving a truck with a receiver into the path of a Line of Sight connection, and just plain using the telescope to look at your monitor if it's facing a window.

Reading about Starfighter recently reminds me of that class..our assignments were to perform buffer overflow and other attacks, it was a lot of fun!
Good idea. Now that I think about it, a large object is trivial in this sysyem. You dedicate some group of contiguous pages solely to the object. This results in some potential waste of the last page, which is probably acceptable. You would not ever need to perform compaction in those pages, just pointer remapping. When the object eventually dies, you release all the pages at once.
http://xkcd.com/795/
I watched that documentary and had a good laugh at how poorly made it was. The filmmaker starts out by revealing that he just loves the ocean and wanted to make a film about it but didn’t know what the topic should be. The arc of the film is him googling for things, gaining the most basic perspective on an issue, pivoting his film toward it, and then failing to get any good interviews or original footage. So funny. He goes through ocean plastics, dolphins, shark fins, fishing net pollution, and one or two more with about as much depth as you would get from a tweet. Also why would you name your film Seaspiracy when Conspirasea is right there. 10/10 if taken as a mocumentary.

The issues are real and I appreciate raising awareness but wow. Not good work.
Yes yes, we all know that exponential growth is pretty cool. But take into account that you can't explode outwards in the Martian environment like some algae growing in a food rich environment, every new person and every piece of infrastructure will need (a lot of) maintenance and that slows down doubling rate by a lot. You also can't use a lot of Earth-based shortcuts either, since there is no oxygen for fossil fuels and you won't be able to grow food in open atmosphere.

Big industrial equipment is really heavy btw, so you could fit at most 1 or 2 pieces of big equipment in the 100 ton payload of a Starship rocket. It could easily be a few hundred launches just to get a proper scale foundry going on mars, if you take into account all the required auxiliary equipment like ore scrubbers, cranes and forklifts. Don't forget all the solar panels and/or nuclear plants for power generation too. It would probably be at least tens of billions of support from Earth.

All in all, I would think that 5-10% growth rate is already pretty ambitious, leading to a doubling rate of 7 to 14 years. If you start your colony with about 50 people, it would rise to a thousand people in a little over 50 years.
I raise you to MacOS + browser + Citrix + Linux + Other browser with Linux being a farm with different keyboard configurations so you never know what you face when you try to log in (requiring the '@' sign).
Can someone explain to me what this is good for in real deployment scenarios? I'm moderately experience with front and back-end stacks, but have little understanding what this is about.
This is a great start. The user profiles are a nice touch and it definitely solves the problem.

I can see how a developer would see this as a perfect way to organize tours, but I don't think is how non-developers would organize them. For example, I think of a guide to a city as one big collection of places, organized into categories, rather than seperate lists of places. I think a map on the guides page with all of the places from all of this lists would be very useful. I also feel that lists should have an order to them, so someone could visit one after another, like a tour of the city.
The site could use some general polish as well. I think this would be a good site to be responsive, as it would be useful on a phone.

Other than that, I think its great. The analytics integration (keeping track of views) is pretty cool. Is that using third party analytics or did you create your own?
Downvoted for stating facts. Way to go, HN!
Thanks for the detailed feedback. I agree with a lot of your points, but I don't think adding QA people addresses the same need as peer code review. QA can find bugs in the current code whereas code review is more about finding issues that may lead to bugs further down the road. Even when there are defects in the current code, they may be edge cases that QA is unlikely to unearth but that will come out in a thorough code review.
Actually guys like him are making our life easier and so we don't have to worry about a lot of stuff like this. Abstractions are a necessity, don't feel bad. There is no way a small team using Java/Scala can accomplish what they usually do in the time frame they do it, without those abstractions. Computers are there to ease our lives after all.

p.s. not undermining the need to optimize and all